Crime Analysis

The course is designed to improve awareness of data that can be used in crime analysis, while developing or extending your skills in the following areas:

• using analytical techniques
• problem solving
• the use of analytical products to influence decision-making

The course is applicable to all types of crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour (ASB). It explores concepts of offending behaviour, victim vulnerability, and place-based criminal activity.

The course is very interactive, and places great emphasis on helping you to develop good quality analytical and intelligence products, particularly problem profiles and strategic assessments.

In particular we focus on helping you to develop intelligence products that not only provide a description of a problem, but a real understanding of that problem, and how it can be tackled.

We illustrate these principles, the use of data, analytical techniques and methods for confidently influencing decision-making with examples from practice and research.

The course draws from our award-winning 'Become a Problem-Solving Crime Analyst' manual, and adds to it with practical research and lessons learnt that we and others have developed over the last ten years.